Cupidity (2004)

CUPIDITY is a romantic comedy, set in New York City about lost love, the horrors of dating and the search to find true love. James (JAMES GILMARTIN) is a nice guy. He's a private sanitation worker with a degree in art history, a sensitive soul and a poet's heart. After getting dumped by a series of women, he is finally with the girl of his dreams, Bethany (BETHANY EMERSON). Bethany is beautiful, sweet, compassionate and deeply in love with James. But there's a problem. James is terrified of losing her. He takes advice from his best friend Stevie (STEVE STANULIS), a male stripper who tells James that to keep a girl you have to treat her badly. "In fact", says Steve, "The worse you treat 'em, the more they love you." Stevie calls his fool-proof philosophy "The Stevie Technique."